Word: characterizes
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Britain's Geoffrey Gorer, critic extraordinary of Africa, Japan, Russia and the U.S., has turned suddenly timid before his own country. In "Some Notes on the British Character" for the final issue of Horizon (TIME, Nov. 28), Gorer first disqualifies himself as an expert ("I cannot make such an...
The Ministry of National Defense examined the report in an effort to appraise the damage done by the leak. It concluded that the report, "while of a confidential political character, could not be considered as national defense secrets." Peyre and the other agents with whom he had dealt were released...
It is a long, religious, didactic play, in verse. Yet it has the character of a psychological study, of drawing-room comedy, of domestic drama. It begins significantly with a cocktail party, emblem of all that is frivolous, ephemeral and heterogeneous in modern life. Characteristically, one guest is a stranger...
*A character largely inspired by much-decorated Major General Frank A. Armstrong Jr., now chief of the Alaskan Air Command, who led the first Flying Fortress daylight assault against the Continent.
Conant sketched the character of Harvard's General Education program for the New York educators and noted that it could probably be of assistance in developing trained personnel to man the faculties of two-year colleges.